[Paper] Ancient DNA from Guam and the peopling of the Pacific
via Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 5 January 2021: DNA from 2,200-year-old skeletons in Guam are closely linked ...
Tag: “Out of Taiwan” model (Austronesian migration)
Model proposed by Peter Bellwood of the Australian National University of a seaborne human migration by Austronesian-speaking populations from South China and Taiwan into Southeast Asia from around 3,,000-1,000 BCE.
[Paper] An integrated study of the human skeletal remains discovered in Escalon Cave, northeastern Mindanao, the Philippines
via Anthropological Science, 07 October 2020: A new paper examines the 2,700-year-old bones of the Escalon Man, named after a ...
In pursuit of Perak Man, Malaysia’s prehistoric bomoh
via Free Malaysia Today, 13 October 2020: Travel story about visiting Gua Gunung Runtuh, the burial site of the Perak ...
[Paper] Forty-thousand years of maritime subsistence near a changing shoreline on Alor Island (Indonesia)
via Quarternary Science Reviews, Sep 2020: A new paper by Kealy et al. reveals a new oldest Pleistocene cave site ...
Tracing origins of native Indonesians through archaeology
via Jakarta Post, 08 November 2019: A recent exhibition at the National Museum of Indonesia explored the idea of nativeness ...
Mulvaney Lecture 2019 – New light on some ancient revolutions by Peter Bellwood
via ANU: Readers in Canberra may be interested in the Mulvaney Lecture on 27 March by Prof. Peter Bellwood.
Tracing the origin of Indonesian people through genetics
via The Conversation, 17 October 2017: Using mitocondrial DNA, we found haplogroups M, F, Y2 and B in the western ...
Archaeogenetics paints a more complex picture of the Austronesian expansion
A detailed study of DNA of Pacific Islanders finds that their mitochondrial DNA were present in Island Southeast Asia from ...
Cemetery in Vanuatu sheds light on the Polynesians in the Pacific
Bones from a 3,000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu suggest that the earliest humans in the pacific were more similar to that ...
Gunung Padang excavators working out of questionable assumptions
A controversial archaeological excavation is taking place at Gunung Padang, a megalith site in Java, where the investigators are looking ...
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